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Title of work: 12:30 pm Gowanus Soundwalk

Start Time: 12:30 pm

Start location: 233 Butler St. (between Bond and Nevins)

Total capacity for walk: to be annnounced

Listening or Producing? Listening

Environmental or Electronic? Natural

About this walk: I will distribute a copy of the score to each participant (note reading helpful but not essential).The score will consist of different musical activities to match different locations and different human activities (ie: walking or standing still. )

We will stop at various magic loci along the gowanus canal and play or not play. Key loci will be:

• A pipe organ repair factory at a secret location
• The gowanus canal pump house across from 233 butler
• The union street bridge
• The carroll st bridge (and former issue project rm silo)
• The candle factory on nevins
• The 3rd st bridge
• A place on nevins where I once got a flat tire on my bicycle.
• An amazing abandoned place behind a parking lot on 4th st.

Duration c/a 45 minutes- 1 hr

Does this walk require using the subway? No

What to bring: Each walker should bring an easily portable instrument capable of playing a chromatic scale. In order of preference:

1. melodica
2. chromatic harmonica
3. cheap portable keyboard with a bad organ sound
4. flute
5. clarinet
6. trumpet or trombone
7. anything else
8. guitar

Artist Bio: Marc Ribot was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954. As a teen, he played guitar in various garage bands while studying with his mentor, Haitian classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus. After moving to New York City in 1978, Ribot was a member of the soul/punk Realtones, and from 1984 - 1989, of John Lurie's Lounge Lizards. Between 1979 and 1985, Ribot also worked as a sidemusician with Brother Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chuck Berry, and many others. Ribot's recording credits include Tom Waits, Soloman Burke, John Lurie, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithful, and many more. Ribot's own recording projects have included the bands Rootless Cosmopolitans (Island Antilles), Shrek (Tzadik), and Los Cubanos Postizos (Atlantic). Marc's solo recordings include "The Book of Heads" (Tzadik), "Don't Blame Me" (DIW), "Saints" (Atlantic), and recently "Exercises in Futility" (Tzadik).

Artist Contact (for specific questions about the walk itself): marcribot@spamarrest.com /

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